The local place was having a 20% off sale between 8 and 10 and I took advantage of it to get a new microphone to record South Coast Shaman. For those that keep track of these technical details, it’s a Rode NT1-A. I’m really looking forward to working with it. My BLUE 8-Ball — which I absolutel loved — gave up the ghost when the condensor in it started throwing noise and I had to stop. Many of you will remember the delay in the last episode of Full Share when, after finally rewriting the ending, I had to replace equipment. Unfortunately I thought it was the pre-amp that had gone bad, but it was the mic, and I wound up doing the last episode of Full Share on a cheap Radio Shack mic. I did a lot of work in post-production to clean up the resulting file, but for the new book, I wanted a new, high quality mic and the Rode comes highly recommended.
Ok! I need to get back to chapter 35. It’s gettin’ excitin’ and I’ve been elbow to elbow in the shopping frenzy all morning.
Nate – thanks for the afterward episode and your thoughtful response to our questions. As a human being I appreciate your intentions behind “Share”, and even though a part of me may pine for a good arse-whoopin’ in this story from time to time, I wouldn’t want you to change a thing. I hadn’t stopped to reconsider what a difficulty it is to write AND read/listen to a story in the first person POV.
Warm Regards
Nate, I don’t know what you did with the Last episode of Full Share, but it sounded better to me than the others, less tinny and your voice came through on both speakers. Rather mostly from the one (right it seemed to be) – I actually preferred the last episodes sound quality.
yes. I’ve modified the way i process the files. thanks to a lot of help from my listeners, it should be a lot clearer.
i’ve talked to the podiobooks people about remixing my files so they have the cleaner sound but it’ll have to wait until Shaman is done now :)
Glad to know the work is paying off.
Yes, your efforts ARE appreciated, and I’m glad that one of my friends turned me onto your stories. There have been a few that I’ve grabbed, that didn’t grab me, if you know what I mean.
And I’d hate to be critical, and cause someone to be discouraged, while there best stuff has yet to emerge.
There will be one hit wonders, like the Frank Baum’s Wizzard of OZ. No one remembers any of his other work. But I’ve heard that there was some.
I have REALLY, truly, totally, (um dang mental thesaurus lockup) become a huge fan of your style of writing. – You ought to toss out a few Children’s stories. The “share” series actually a little racy, after the first book… :) Not that I mind, I mean, Ish IS 18 and male… I can identify with him there.